lu's Reviews > 余污 [Yu Wu]

in the end, you and i were always together. in life and death, i’ll love you forever, you’ll always make me proud.

reread : i thought i was prepared to read this book for a second time, turns out i clearly wasn’t. in fact, knowing every single thing that was going to happen in advance only made it more painful. going through all the details behind yuwu’s beautiful plot all over again knowing how every single one of them was going to conclude only made this path that i had already traveled before a thousand times worse. but despite how much my heart has been hurting for the past week bc of this novel, i’m also glad i decided to read it again (even if it’s only been 3 months since i read it for the first time). as i just said, yuwu is a story that hides so many plot twists and beautiful details that u can only fully enjoy once u read it a second time, and that’s what i decided to do. this has to be one of my favourite novels ever, and i don’t think i’ll ever get tired of it or ximang. i truly love those two sillies so much.

1st read : sighs, how do i even start this. this novel has had me SO hooked during the last week and a half that i am HEARTBROKEN to have finally finished it.

i’ll put it simply: read yuwu. this novel is so incredibly good for so many different reasons. the politics, the character writing, the constant plot twists and —of course— the main couple —all of them will have you obsessed from the very first page.
i had put yuwu on hold for a long time before starting it because i didn’t feel emotionally prepared for what reading this novel means. and i’m glad i did, cause i feel like i wouldn’t have enjoyed as much as i did if i had read it when i wasn’t ready. damn, the angst was so intense and painful from the very start of the novel and it didn’t stop for a single second, however, it still was a very beautiful read and i absolutely adored how everything was developed.

before finishing this review, if you’re reading this and haven’t read yuwu yet, all i’ll say is that you should definitely go ahead and read it without hesitation, the chances of loving it are extremely high. yuwu has now become one of my favourite danmeis ever and you will not see me shutting up about it in a long time lmao. 🫠